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Evan Mintz


OPINION 8/24/07 12:00am

Let’s give hazing a second chance, Rice style

Hazing gets a bad rap. And with the associated deaths, alcohol poisonings and homoeroticism, it is quite understandable that hazing at Rice has been reduced to a shadow of its former self. But there used to be a time when hazing was a grand and glorious tradition on campus.